We were lucky to catch up with Chyavan Reddy recently and have shared our conversation below.

Chyavan, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Did you always know you wanted to pursue a creative or artistic career? When did you first know?

Life has a playful way of showing you who you are, if you take the time to be present and raise your awareness to that vibration within the silence.

Children are innate with expression and furthermore, expressing their being through art. This is where the realization dawned upon me.

I was simply a 5 year old, surrounded by pages strewn across the floor, as I created a character that I said will be in Marvel Comics. The impression these characters have upon us is truly powerful and from a young age they led me down a curiosity voyage filled with imagination and creativity.
And as the nature of life flows, with the subconscious sway of societal pressures from school and ‘career decisions’, I began to forget this dream of becoming a comic book artist that once fueled my every artistic endeavor.
This realization dawned upon me once more, from a period of unlearning and shedding of the construct I had allowed to dictate my life. Flowing into a profession of architecture in my years after schooling, served as a the ember that was gently guided into the fire that warms my soul today.

As I mentioned earlier, life shows you who you are at a young age. Upon allowing myself the gift of being present, the 5 year old spirit was awakened once more

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

Alan Watts forevermore proclaimed that trying to define oneself is like trying to bite your own teeth. Nonetheless, I would like to give it a try:
My name is Chyavan Reddy, your friendly neighborhood artist, and for the past 28 years I have been exploring this realm through the mediums of comic book art, poetry, architecture and design.

Being in the world, we so often proclaim ourselves as verbs or ‘doing things’, that we tend to forget our ‘being’ and the fact that we have always been, at our very roots, explorers. And thus, my explorations have seen me dabble in designing homes/offices/hospitals, spend a generous impactful time with a video production company, self study graphic design & mycology and funnily, play beach football with Samuel Eto’o.

How I arrived here at being a Comic book artist had no straight path attached to it, but is filled with intention.
After completion of my schooling career, I ventured into the world of architecture, completing a degree and have since begun cultivating a space, where the many forms of art I enjoy exploring, can exist in a cohesive hivemind sense. I deeply love being a disciple to my life and the cross learning that occurs from exploring various disciplines have played a part in the diversification of my being.
Creative fields tend to overlap and the beauty of this curiosity voyage of mine, gifted me the opportunity to connect with various individuals from these fields and further increased the radius of the services I could provide. The beauty of genuine connection gives way to chance encounters and opportunities you may have never written out on your goal list. Some of my closest friends throughout my architecture year suggested I begin an Instagram account and share my art with the world. This later led to connecting with artists and creatives of pure imagination and further added to the momentum and spirit that the art community so easily gifts. I knew that all I desired to do in this world was to gift people art, in whatever form the art desired to reach them with. And this energy was reciprocated and celebrated – and the many Comic Cons attended in South Africa led to further connections to friends that have become family. There is beauty in human connection. The haptic feedback loop created alters brain chemistry on a level of realization that we are one family; one tribe. And it is through this support of my Tribe, that my 5 year old’s dream manifested when an email from Marvel Comics appeared. To this day, the surreal energy of that moment still leaves me astounded. This was me trusting the universe, the flow of curiosity and the dream of 5 year old Chyavan.

The recognition from Marvel Comics has deepened my love for understanding the craft in its totality. I spend deep hours of focused work studying the masters of the comic book world simultaneously experimenting with mediums and styles that find their roots in the traditional art form of Inking and Japanese Manga. These experimentations find their way into my commissioned works, which primarily focus on characters from the comic book and manga worlds, This avenue of subject matter is the what inspires my imagination and allows me to contribute to the magic in the world.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

The promise to myself is that I will forevermore seek this realm of the divine, create meaningful works of art and serve as a journalist to the cosmos, in sharing this with you.

In essence: To gift people art.
A simple yet profound sentence in my life, whose spirit finds itself in every artwork created. The essence stems from the reverence to nature and the sacred quality that life bestows upon us at every moment.
To experience art is to be thrust into the world of a realm that can only be described as ethereal. Art holds within itself, the ability to inspire, connect and heal the beholder, gently allowing their being to be transported into a plane of the surreal and divine- a realm open to every individual, on the account that they give themselves the opportunity to try, to tinker and experiment, to fail and break, to fall and fly. To experience fully the essence that flows through every atom.

What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?

What a ‘society’ can do is essentially what ‘we’ can do.
We are the society.
And the first step to effect any means of change on a cosmic scale is to begin at the atomic scale.
I personally feel that by changing our perception, and therefore our projection, of how we as creatives think the world views us, we would ultimately live the change into existence. This action of self, will propagate an ecosystem that fosters collaboration and thrives on kindness, love and humanity. This radius would join the natural order of the universe, and expand further.

I feel that it is also important to remember that upon the bridge of moments between joyous splendor and soul shattering calamity, the world turns to art. The world turns to a medium of natural expression through the art discourse. Through cinema, novels, poetry, orchestra. Through beauty. Awe. Rapture. Silence.

Art is the language through which we process, express and heal.

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